Star Shower
June Wayne, Stellar Winds Series
11 x 9¾ in. (27.9 x 23.8 cm)
Color lithograph printed by Edward Hamilton on Wayne’s own Rives with Tamstone watermark.
Edition of 15,1979.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Pomona College, 1992; Macquarie Galleries, 1989; Fresno Art Museum, 1988 (illus.); Macalester College, 1986; Associated American Artists, February 1986; Print Club of Philadelphia, 1985; Associated American Artists, November 1985; Galerie des Femmes, 1985; Northern Illinois University, 1982; Suzanne Brown Gallery, 1981; Occidental College, 1980; Security Pacific Bank, 1980.
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Arizona State University Art Museum, Bibliotheque nationale de France, Brodsky Center, Grunwald Center, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York Public Library, Williams College Museum of Art.
COMMENTS
June Wayne had a lifelong interest in the science of optics, and the appearance of meteor showers naturally intrigued her. Shower particles travel in parallel paths and at the same speed, appearing to an observer to radiate from a single point, an effect of perspective. This has been compared to railroad tracks vanishing into a single point on the horizon. As always, Wayne researched her subjects from a philosophical perspective, using scientific discoveries as a starting point for broader meditations on the cosmos.
This work was selected by the Museum of Modern Art for its Appointment Calendar along with other works from its collection by Ansel Adams, Louise Bourgeois, Vija Celmins, Joseph Cornell, Jim Dine, Vasily Kadinsky, Sol Lewitt, Joan Miro, Georgia O'Keefe, Gerhard Richter, Diego Rivera, James Rosenquist, & Vincent Van Gogh.
Star Shower